FILM DIRECTOR

Giovanni Pastrone

1883 - 1959

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Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician. Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti. He worked during the era of the silent film and influenced many important directors in the international cinema with Cabiria, such as David Wark Griffith in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). Martin Scorsese believes that Pastrone's work in Cabiria can be considered as the invention of the epic movie and he deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Pastrone has received more than 64,400 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Pastrone is the 631st most popular film director (down from 617th in 2019), the 2,809th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,644th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Italian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Giovanni Pastrone ranks 631 out of 2,041. Before him are Peter Hyams, Yuri Ilyenko, Alberto Cavalcanti, Natacha Rambova, Robert Mulligan, and Roger Spottiswoode. After him are Les Kurbas, James Mangold, Larry Clark, Michel Deville, Segundo de Chomón, and Im Kwon-taek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Giovanni Pastrone ranks 142. Before him are Paul Bader, Ludwig Müller, Demyan Bedny, August Zaleski, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and Naoya Shiga. After him are Mihály Babits, Eugen Leviné, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Luigi Ganna, Eleazar López Contreras, and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. Among people deceased in 1959, Giovanni Pastrone ranks 89. Before him are José Vasconcelos, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Bak Jungyang, Vincent Richards, Luigi Sturzo, and Fernand Bouisson. After him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Oskar Vogt, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, and Ion Gigurtu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Pastrone ranks 2,809 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Loredan (1685), Sandro Salvadore (1939), Bartolo di Fredi (1330), Alberto Gilardino (1982), Bartolomeo Carducci (1554), and Giovanni Poleni (1683). After him are Tiziano Terzani (1938), Salvatore Sciarrino (1947), Appius Claudius Pulcher (-130), Domenico Montagnana (1686), Roberto De Zerbi (1979), and Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1504).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Giovanni Pastrone ranks 46. Before him are Elio Petri (1929), Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Luigi Zampa (1905), Tonino Delli Colli (1923), Franco Rossi (1919), and Carlo Lizzani (1922). After him are Gianfranco Parolini (1930), Renato Castellani (1913), Sergio Sollima (1921), Mario Salieri (1957), Bruno Mattei (1931), and Mario Camerini (1895).

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